Do not let the lack of updates make you think this site is out of date. I have noticed that there are more and more calls in letters to the editor to eliminate the property tax. So my message might be finally taking hold or (more likely) others just see its inherent inequities and draw the same conclusion.

One of the biggest problems in getting this message into the heads of the average taxpayer is they assume the property tax's legitimacy or--worse--they see the need to eliminate it but figure it cannot be done and so conclude there is no point in trying.

How discouraging. Ideas are what have changed the course of history. They begin as an idea and then capture the imagination and heart of more and more people until they are integrated into the way they act and what they do.

It is no different here. To eliminate the property tax can easily be done if people would just change their mind that "it can't be done". There is nothing else stopping this from happening. There are no guns pointed at our heads. There is no "disappearing" of those advocating its end. There are no gulags people are exiled to. It is only their own defeatist attitude and thoughts that prevents this.

What about those who think it is a fair and equitable way to collect revenue to fund government? They are either willfully blind or simply do not care about fairness and equity in the taxing system.

It is not complicated. If fairness and equity are guiding principles, no amount of other pragmatic, dogmatic nor idiotic (ignoring the obvious) argumentation should be allowed to trump an ethical matter. And that is what this is. Are we a people who are guided by transcendent principles or not?